Schoolboys Gone Groovy: The Bowes Road Band’s Back in the HCA

EPYSODE 11: "Back In The HCA" by The Bowes Road Band.

Guests: All 4 Bowes Road Band Members - Alan Lewis, Phil Rawle, Dave Pescod, Ted Rockley plus Jakarta Records label co-owner Jannis Stürtz.

*This epysode was released in season 1, when the show was titled "Psychedelic Relics".

In a Rodriguez-like tale, we hear how an album recorded 50 years earlier for a school project gets discovered in the unlikliest of places by the one person who can make a story like this happen. This "band" didn't even have a name until 2023, and now hundreds of thousands of people have streamed their album and bought vinyl copies. From an original private press of 50 copies to international attention, it's an amazing story about a wonderful album their creators made and then for all intents and purposes completely forgot about for 50 years. With help from all four band members and the record label owner, we hear this incredible two-part story: the unbelievable fortune the band had to even get the album recorded in the first place and then the even more unbelievable tale of how it was discovered decades later. "It's like digging up a time capsule", the band says. As great as the story is...the music is even better!

BONUS: With approval from the band and record label, we are also happy to include a track left off the reissue, playing it in it's entirety here, making it the world-wide exclusive premeire of the track!

Thanks for tuning in, turning on & dropping by Vinyl Relics. I hope you dig "Back In The HCA" as much as I do...

- Farmer John

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===THE MUSIC===

Songs used in this Epysode, in order of appearance. Here's a link to a Spotify playlist for all the tracks featured ( *denotes track is not available on Spotify):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4BIN7NjJpResxbtoSNSqvD?si=1b9ec50582ae4f57

CHRISTMAS "Heritage"

THE CREATION "Painter Man"

BOWES ROAD BAND "Grass Is Grass"

BOWES ROAD BAND "Tomorrow's Truth"

BOWES ROAD BAND "Goodbye To Rosie"

BOWES ROAD BAND "I Hear A Knocking" (aka "Inside My Head")

BOWES ROAD BAND "Doctor, Doctor"

BOWES ROAD BAND "Two Fingers"

*THE PHOENIX RISING BAND "North London Boy And Girl"

??MYSTERY ARTIST??...Tune in to the next Epysode to find out...

*BOWES ROAD BAND "Back In The HCA"

NEWPORT ELECTRIC "Yippie-i-o"

^ that's my band. This is shameless self-promotion!

 
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